The Making of Competition Policy: A Reader

This book provides edited selections of primary source material in the intellectual history of competition policy from Adam Smith to the present day. Chapters include classical theories of competition, the U.S. founding era, classicism and neoclassicism, progressivism, the New Deal, structuralism, the Chicago School, and post-Chicago theories. Although the focus is largely on Anglo-American sources, there is also a chapter on European Ordoliberalism, an influential school of thought in post-War Europe. Each chapter begins with a brief essay by one of the editors pulling together the important themes from the period under consideration.

Read the introduction here and the table of contents after the jump.
Introduction

Chapter 1. Classical Theories

Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
David Ricardo, Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy

Chapter 2. Federalism, Antifederalism, and Jacksonianism

Max Farrand, Records of the Federal Convention of 1787
Agrippa, To the People
Alexander Hamilton, Contintentalist
Thomas Cooley, Limits to State Control of Private Business

Theodore Roosevelt, The Trusts, the People, and the Square Deal
William Howard Taft, We Must Get Back to Competition
Woodrow Wilson, The Tariff and the Trusts

Chapter 5. Imperfect, Monopolistic, and Workable Competition

Edward Chamberlin, The Theory of Monopolistic Competition
Joan Robinson, The Economics of Imperfect Competition
John Maurice Clark, Toward a Concept of Workable Competition

Chapter 6. The New Deal and the Institutionalists

Adolf A. Berle and Gardiner C. Means, The Modern Corporation and Private Property
Louis Brandeis, The Curse of Bigness
Rexford Tugwell, The Industrial Discipline and the Governmental Arts
Thurman Arnold, The Bottlenecks of Business

George Stigler, The Organization of Industry
Aaron Director and Edward Levi, Law the Future: Trade Regulation
Robert H. Bork, The Antitrust Paradox
Richard A. Posner, The Chicago School of Antitrust Analysis